NOUN
- generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)
- an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies
How To Use fornix In A Sentence
- The vagina and its neighbors, including the following: vagina, hymen, urethral sponge, fornix (part of the vagina), cervix, os (part of the cervix), and pubococcygeus (PC) muscle. OUR BODIES, OURSELVES
- Between the two crura of the fornix is a white, triangular lamina, known as the fornical commissure.
- The choroid plexus of the 3rd ventricle is united with the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle via the choroid fissure between thalamus and fornix.
- The thickened edge of gray substance becomes the gyrus dentatus, the fasciola cinerea and the supra - and subcallosal gyri, while the free edge of the white substance forms the fimbria hippocampi and the body and crus of the fornix. IX. Neurology. 2. Development of the Nervous System
- Axons of neurons in the hippocampus (a specialized part of the cerebral cortex involved in conscious memory) run in a tract called the fornix, which ends on neurons in the mammillary bodies of the hypothalamus.
- The columns (columna fornicis; anterior pillars; fornicolumns) of the fornix arch downward in front of the interventricular foramen and behind the anterior commissure, and each descends through the gray substance in the lateral wall of the third ventricle to the base of the brain, where it ends in the corpus mammillare. IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
- As can be seen in the left hemisphere, the choroid plexus protrudes into the central part of the lateral ventricle, and the route of entry of the plexus is via the choroid fissure, between the fornix and the lamina affixa.
- The fornix is an arching, fibrous band of nerve fibers.
- the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
- Aside from the fibers of the fornix which pass through the mammillary body to decussate and descend (as the mammillo-mesencephalic fasciculus), many fibers are said to pass into the bundle of Vicq dAzyr, and one bundle of fibers is said to pass from the fornix to the tuber cinereum. IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves
